To: Mikey_1962
Writer JG Ballard has a number "doom and gloom" stories out there, I think written before wacko environmentalism spang up: The Drowned World, The Wind From Nowhere, etc. They'd make good fodder for the doomsday crowd.
I think it was Issac Asimov who wrote that mankind will deal with, solve and survive whatever the future may throw at us.
9 posted on
04/04/2006 1:52:03 PM PDT by
George - the Other
(400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
To: George - the Other
In the 1880's a study was done saying that New York City would be uninhabitable by 1925.
Why?
Because the shear numbers of live and dead horses and the waste and disease they spread would make it so.
Humans are dynamic, problems are static.
Innovation and engineering have always and always will solve our collective problems.
10 posted on
04/04/2006 1:55:54 PM PDT by
Mikey_1962
(I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
To: George - the Other
The wind from nowhere pretty much sums it up. Wind is all it ever is, and out of nowhere is where they get it.
28 posted on
04/04/2006 6:54:49 PM PDT by
JasonC
To: George - the Other
"Writer JG Ballard has a number "doom and gloom" stories out there, I think written before wacko environmentalism spang up: The Drowned World, The Wind From Nowhere, etc. They'd make good fodder for the doomsday crowd."I think they were good science fiction.
46 posted on
04/05/2006 3:45:07 PM PDT by
TheLion
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